Causes of the Cold War
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- Causes/dev of the Cold War
- IDEOLOGY
- capitalism v communism
- USSR-trying to spread communism?or misinterpretation
- Red Army- imposing communism- Al,P,B,R,H= supsicion
- Wanted protection- 'Polish Corridor'
- Buffer Zone
- Weakness after war
- hostility from Poland - Katyn, Warsaw rising '44
- transporting poles
- Pots- mistrust hardened
- transporting poles
- defensive to prevent invasion
- v adamant about Poland-important for secururity
- Buffer Zone
- Went back on promise at Yalta of free elections
- Czechoslovakian Crisis- no direct help
- USSR-trying to spread communism?or misinterpretation
- Potsdam'45 - hiroshima- St denied occupation=mistrust hardened
- capitalism v communism
- STALIN'S MOTIVES
- Spreading world Revolution
- 1945- situation had changed
- '46- St speech= declaration of conflict - interpreted as more hostile?
- Comintern-facilitating contact between groups
- purges= plan for expansion?
- USSR-trying to spread communism?or misinterpretation
- Red Army- imposing communism- Al,P,B,R,H= supsicion
- Wanted protection- 'Polish Corridor'
- Buffer Zone
- Weakness after war
- hostility from Poland - Katyn, Warsaw rising '44
- transporting poles
- Pots- mistrust hardened
- transporting poles
- defensive to prevent invasion
- v adamant about Poland-important for secururity
- Buffer Zone
- Went back on promise at Yalta of free elections
- Czechoslovakian Crisis- no direct help
- Supported by long telegram Feb 1946
- imposition of comm govs
- Percentages deal '44- recognise speres of I
- 1945- situation had changed
- Personality
- Nazi-Soviet Pact=insecurities
- Berlin Blockade= provocative but no action against US aid
- Greece-no active role-kept word
- Comecon '49= response to marshall aid
- Economics
- fear of ec recession in US
- Marshall Plan- economic aid
- dollar imperialism?
- Turkey- $100m mil. +ec aid
- Marshall Plan- economic aid
- Truman Doctrine 1947
- Supporting capitalist govs
- IDEOLOGY
- capitalism v communism
- Potsdam'45 - hiroshima- St denied occupation=mistrust hardened
- capitalism v communism
- IDEOLOGY
- Supporting capitalist govs
- Marshall Plan- economic aid
- dollar imperialism?
- Turkey- $100m mil. +ec aid
- fear of ec recession in US
- Economics
- Traditional Russian Expansionism
- acting like Tsar + recovering territories
- good opportunities to >power
- want german resources
- Spreading world Revolution
- US MOTIVES
- Domino theory
- Czech+Ber= evidence to US of expansionism
- Hardline + militant approach towards comm +USSR
- Domino theory
- Czech+Ber= evidence to US of expansionism
- Hardline + militant approach towards comm +USSR
- NSC-68= Roll back
- Hardline + militant approach towards comm +USSR
- Czech+Ber= evidence to US of expansionism
- NSC-68= Roll back
- Domino theory
- Hardline + militant approach towards comm +USSR
- Czech+Ber= evidence to US of expansionism
- Economics
- fear of ec recession in US
- Truman Doctrine 1947
- Supporting capitalist govs
- Supporting capitalist govs
- fear of ec recession in US
- Domestic pressures
- Stand up to comm- Roo failed
- Iron fist
- Long telegram
- Stand up to comm- Roo failed
- Iron fist
- Stand up to comm- Roo failed
- Iron Curtain speech- '46- provocative?
- Red Scare+ McCarthyism
- Stand up to comm- Roo failed
- Domino theory
- EXTENSION TO FAR EAST
- CHINA 1949 comm estab
- evidence of spreading of world communism
- Korea
- under direction of Moscow +Beijing?
- USSR= no direct involvement
- Korean War '50-53
- not aided by USSR
- 260,000 US troops= roll back
- Vietnam
- power vacuum- aid from china?
- domino theory in E. Asia
- CHINA 1949 comm estab
- Missile Gap
- '45-49= US only nuclear power
- 49= USSR: A bomb
- 1952- US= Hbomb
- USSR= less than year later
- suspicion + race for mil superiority
- '45-49= US only nuclear power
- HISTORICAL
- Nazi-Soviet pact '39
- Treaty of Brest Litovsk 1918= betrayal
- civil war- allies help R enemies
- Appeasement- turning attention towards russia
- Warsaw '44- tension
- IDEOLOGY
- Evidence for argument
- Evidence against argument
- Berlin blockade '48-49
- W. german state established+ new currency
- 2 hostile camps- division permanent
- expansionist policy- trying to influence +take power
- Berlin Blockade= provocative but no action against US aid
- NATO = no isolationism + willing to retaliate
- US MOTIVES
- Domestic pressures
- Long telegram
- Iron Curtain speech- '46- provocative?
- Red Scare+ McCarthyism
- Long telegram
- Domestic pressures
- US MOTIVES
- made both powers more stubborn
- W. german state established+ new currency
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